As part of the “Our Time to Speak” initiative, which aims to build a network of activists and working groups committed to strengthening citizenship as a way to restore the social contract, a series of reports was launched in collaboration with Manateq Net. The series highlights groups that have voiced their rejection of war and their commitment to the state, its institutions, and its exclusive right to decide on matters of war and peace. In this report, Dr. Abdullah Rizk, Secretary-General of the Cultural Council for Southern Lebanon, shares the Council’s position on the war, its efforts to bring together cultural and intellectual groups to respond to it, and its work supporting displaced families.
